The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-07
RAMPANT "REps."
Chicago Anarchists Still Active and
ReyenRefil


Revengefil.
Chicago Correspondence Of the New York Herald.
Is anarchy dead in Chicago2
The police say, and, in all probability,
may think il is. "
Yet, beyond hanging four men, keeping
Indictments suspended over the l,eads OF
n dozen others and preventing the carrying
of rcd flags in the streets, nothing has been
done 10 eradicate II.
Chicago is still the hotbod Of socialism,
and in this city socialism is synonymous
with Russian nihilism. There Is small
strip Of middle ground, but Il is 10 small
that very few stand on il, aud even those
fellows who occupy this limited territory
were the foremost in the attempt 10 breed
apprehension regarding the effect OF the
hanging OF the men ON November Il last,
The disciples OF Bakunin here are many,
but Louis Lingg was not the first among
them by any means. lie was the most
prominent, undoubtedly, but this was boz
cause OF his rlshncss and indiscretion.
STILL DEFYISd THE LAW.
Daily the Arbciter.Zeitung, which holds
rs sacred the memory Of it's departed ed.
itOr, Spies, invcighs against the law and
its enforcement. This vile sheet, which Is
published in the shadow of the West
Twelfth street Turn halle, wants revenge.
The Alarm, Parsons paper, also wants NJ.
yengc. SO does Mn. Parsons. The
Arbeiter-Zcitung which for time after
the llaymarkct massacre was weak and
sickly, is now strong and ilourishing. IL
has a good advertising patronage and its
subscription list ~ constantly on the in
crease. Does this look rs though the
principles Of anarchy hal been abandoned
in Chicago The most assiduous readers oi
the Arbeitcr are the police. and Captain
Setback in particular. The captain Is the
man who ran the great conspiracy 10 earth,
and among the pleasant paragraphs which
strike his eye in the pcru-al Of his layorite
publication arc those which bear the inior.
nation 10 him that lac il marked 10 die by
violence. The captain would not be SUR
prised ut any time 10 bc shot In the back.
lie knows that none OF the cowardly crew
which hates him 30 bitterly has the nerve
TO shoe, him in the face.
the Turn HALLr uXEEMPr REDS"
Across the street FROM the Arbcitcr Zei.
tung Office, In the Twelfth street Turn
halle, still stand the tables which, two
ycars ago, resounded 10 the raps Of the
bccr-glasses in the hands Of wild eyed, I'M
kempt and dirty reds, who yociierously
checred the uttcmnccS Of sam Fielden, MS
dirty and unkcmrt ~ themselves; of Par
sons, who, protcssedly the friend aud
champion of his auditors, secretly despiscd
them. lie was well brought up aud
came Of good family, aud such association
was not entirely 10 his taste. Indiscrtions
such ~ his marriage, Tor instances.
traciscd him, and he preferred 10 be
leader among those Tor whom he had a
contempt than o suppliant among those
with whom, by birth and breeding, he was
fit 10 associate.
Around the galleries In this hall, when
the IntsrnRiionals were wont 90 make
merry, were founcfly hung the banners
bearing the mottocsOf this famous organi.
cation: "Our civilization The bullet and
the policcman's club" Private property
is public robbefy,m etc. Some Of these
banners are now In the hands OF the State;
others are hidden away and carefully cher.
ished as emblematic Of the social reyolu.
ton that Is 10 como. From the time Of
the throwing Of the lIaymarket bomb until
the execution Mrs. Parsons kept carefully
hidden q rcd flag which she had often car.
ried through the streets, and this was fold.
cd In the form OF a sash aud thrown across
tho body OF her husband ~ he lay In his
coffin with the marks Of the hangmans
rope around his neck. II is around his
body vet, aud VIII rcmain there until Il
crumhles into dust This does moi look as
though anarchy were dead In Chicago.
survircu TO MAXI THINGS howl.
The calling Of Editor sheyitch to Chica.
90 10 take the place Of Curtin does not
look as though 4 was the intentian Of tho